Re: OT ? Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator on linux

[Chris Locke <clocke () stratitec com>]

Thanks for posting this man, I saw these at comp usa the other day and 
wondered if they could be made to work under linux, just haven't gotten 
around to searching fot the info yet. Now I don't have to :)

chris
http://stageofbattle.org

On Monday 11 October 2004 2:29 pm, KF wrote:
> The package advertised as "Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS
> locator" comes with a Pharos GPS-360 (P/N 360-1000-02) USB GPS Receiver.
> This device works very nicely under the Windows world obviously however
> sniffing and wardriving with windows just plain sucks.
>
> If you boot linux and attempt to use this device you really won't have
> much luck with the stock configuration of the kernel. The kernel does
> support Pharos USB GPS devices however the headers need updating before
> this particular model will work.
>
> lsusb shows us the following output.
>
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 067b:aaa0 Prolific Technology, Inc.
>
> Most Prolific 2303 chipsets have a Product ID of 2303 I am not sure why
> this M$ one does not. Because of this the regular kernel module "pl2303"
> will not work for us.
>
> If you want to use this little gem with linux and kismet you are still
> in luck. All you need to do is modify one line of a header file and do a
> quick "make modules" and "make modules install" from within your kernel
> tree.
>
> Modify pl2303.h before compiling as so:
>
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h
>
> // #define PL2303_PRODUCT_ID    0x2303
> #define PL2303_PRODUCT_ID       0xaaa0
>
> I am sure someone can add some more code around this to make it support
> both devices however this does the immediate trick.
>
> Load both usbserial and pl2303 and you should be good to go.
>
> You should see the following output in dmesg.
>
> pl2303 1-1:1.0: PL-2303 converter detected
> usb 1-1: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
> Fire up gpsd and sniff away.
>
> /usr/local/sbin/gpsd -p /dev/ttyS0
>
> Happy war driving.
>
> -KF
>
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